R v O (No 2) - [1999] 1 NZLR 326

Criminal practice and procedure — Appeal — Whether verdicts inconsistent — Appellant convicted on representative sodomy charges — Specific charges and representative charges relating to later and earlier periods not made out — Whether similar fact evidence derived from prior conviction explained inconsistency in verdicts.

Criminal practice and procedure — Jurisdiction — Sodomy — Whether District Court had jurisdiction to try appellant on representative sodomy charge — District Court had jurisdiction for indictment of anal intercourse — Whether sodomy was effectively same offence — Submission that conviction was a nullity — District Courts Act 1947, s 28A.